Tobias Wolff will be giving the Esther Frank Memorial Reading at Arizona State University on Thursday, November 15, 2001. The reading will be held in Neeb Hall at 8:00 P.M.

Tobias Wolff is a novelist, short story writer, and nonfiction writer. His short story collections include In the Garden of the North American Martyrs (1981), Back in the World (1985), and his most recent book The Night in Question (1996). His short stories have won the O. Henry Prize and the Rea Award and have been anthologized in the "Best American" series.

In 1984 Wolff received the PEN/Faulkner Award for Best Work of Fiction for his novel The Barracks Thief, the story of three stateside paratroopers during the Vietnam War who are bonded together through a shared experience of self-imposed risk.

Wolff published his first work of nonfiction, This Boy's Life, in 1989, a memoir of childhood and remembrance, which became the basis of a 1993 coming-of-age movie of the same name starring Ellen Barkin and Robert DeNiro. Wolff's second memoir, In Pharaoh's Army: Memories of the Lost War (1994) was chosen as a finalist for the National Book Award.

Tobias Wolff lives with his family in upstate New York, where he was writer-in-residence at Syracuse University from 1980-1997 and is currently teaching at Stanford University. The stories in The Night in Question--three of which have been selected for the Best American series--have appeared in periodicals ranging from Antaeus to The New Yorker, Story to Granta, TriQuarterly to Esquire.

Mr. Wolff is a former creative writing faculty member at Arizona State University.

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Source: ASU Creative Writing Program site